Wagon-seat fastener



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B. VAN HORN & J. E. LATHE.

f# WAGON SEAT FASTBNER.

No. 414.957. Patented Nov. 12, 1889.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,957, dated November 12, 18891v Application filed SeptemhernZ, 1889. Serial No. v325,184 (N0 model.)

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Be it known that 4we, BERT VAN HORN, of Oneida, in the county of Madison and State of New York, and JAMES E. LATHE, of Vernon, in the county of Oneida, in the State of New York, have invented new .anduseful Improvements in Zagen-Seat Fasteners, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying' drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to devices for securing` removable seats to wagon-bodies; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of parts forming a seat-fastener which is conveniently manipulated in attaching and detaching the seat to and from the wagonbody and perfectly safe in retaining the seat on the wagon-body, all as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is an inner side View of a section of a wagon-body with the seat secured thereto by ourimproved fastener. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view of said fastener, showing the same in both its locked and unlocked position. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the catclrplate which is attached to the rail of the wagon-body, and Fig. t is an inverted plan view of the plate to which the key is pivoted. i

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

R represents the usual longitudinal rail attached to the inner side of the wagon-body.

C denotes the seat, andA the riser thereof, by which it is mounted on the aforesaid rail.

In the top of the ra-il Rwe countersink the metallic catch-plate P of our seat-fastener, said plate being elongated and secured to the rail R by screws passing vertically through holes t' Z in the end portions of the plate, and

into the rail. The plate is also provided at its center with a transverse slot n., which is formed with an enlargement a at its center, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

P is another metallic plate, which is elongated and countersunk in the under side of the riser A, and secured thereto by screws passing up through the plate and into the riser. To the center of this plate is pivoted the key b, which has its shank passing through the plate, and to the protruding end of said shank above t-he plate is rigidly attached the level;l Z, by means of' which the key is turned in locking and unlocking the seat-fastener. The key is formed with a T-shaped head at a distance from the under side of the plate P equal to the thickness of the catclrplateiP, and said key-head is of such shape and dimensions as to allow it to pass through the slot a of the catch-plate when the key-head stands parallel with the slot.

VThe lever Z stands at such an angle in relation to the head of the key that when the key is turned so as to set the head crosswise of the slot a the free end of the lever points toward the front of the seat, as shown in Figs. l and 2 of the drawings, and in swinging the lever rearward the head of the key is turned to stand 'parallel with the slot, and can then pass through the said slot, as before stated.

In mounting the seat on the wagon-body the keys b Z) on the two risers A of the seat are turned to stand parallel with the slots a of the catch-plates Pon opposite sides of the wagon-body, and in this position the keys are inserted into the slots a and the risers A placed upon the rails R. Then by swinging the free end of the lever Z forward so as to point toward the front of the seat, the key-heads are turned to stand crosswise of the slots of the catch-plates and engage the under sides of said plates, and thus lock the seat in its position. The lever Z then standing with its free end pointing forward effectually guards against accidental unlocking of the keys from the catch-plates, inasmuch as the joltings to which the wagon-body is subjected when the wagon is in motion are chiey toward the front of the wagon, and consequently the lever Z is automatically held in its aforesaid locking position. To limit the motion of the said lever to its locking and unlocking position, we form the same with a downward-projecting shoulder c, which comes in contact with the edge of the plate P.

To further guard against the accidentalunlocking of t-he described seat-fastener, we form the catch-plate P with a slightridge e at the center of the inner edge of its top. The lever Z is sufficiently flexible to allow it to be pushed over said ridge in locking and unlocking the IOO fastener; but the ridge presents a sufficient barrier to prevent the lever from automatically turning from its said positions.

The stem of the key l) is thicker than the width of the head, and for that reason the slot (L is formed with the central enlargement U1', in which the stem of the key turns and is prevented froin moving laterally.

Having described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to 4secure by Letters the front of the seat, substantially as described and shown.

2. In Combination with the railR and riser A, the plate P, counter-sunk in the top of said rail and secured thereto and provided at its center with the transverse slot a, formed with the central enlargement a', the plate P', oountersunk in the under side of the riser and secured thereto and provided at the center of the inner edge of its top with the ridge e, the T-headed key b,pivoted to the latter plate and adapted to pass vertically through the slot a, and the lever Z, secured to the key above the plate P', and provided with the downward-projecting shoulder 1:, substantially as described and shown.

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